[RFC/PATCH 2/2] Generic clockevents and no-idle-HZ for PowerPC

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Sat Sep 8 05:26:28 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 14:16 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:04:51PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 00:44 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > This creates a clockevent for the PowerPC decrementer and registers it
> > > with the generic clock/timer system, and implements the dynamic ticks
> > > (no idle HZ) option for PowerPC.
> > 
> > I tried both patches applied and with/without CONFIG_NOHZ but my quad G5
> > won't boot. Anybody else have more luck?
> 
> Did you try with the two changes I suggested? Patch below.

No, I hadn't dug through mail yet. I'm away from the machine, will give
it a try early next week. Thanks!

johannes
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